How to make a shrub garden for wildlife
Woody shrubs and climbers provide food for wildlife, including berries, fruits, seeds, nuts leaves and nectar-rich flowers. So why not plant a shrub garden and see who comes to visit?
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Newark Group Talk: Plants for Life
This link will open on the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust website.
This talk explores the herbs and plants used in remedies and spells, from love charms to wise remedies and more!
The best plants for bees and pollinators
Set up a ‘nectar café’ by planting flowers for pollinating insects like bees and butterflies
Celebrating Elke Mackenzie: Explorer, scientist and lichenologist, in honour of LGBTQ+ History Month
Finley Reynolds, Co-Chair of The Wildlife Trusts' Out for Nature network, explores the legacy of Elke Mackenzie—a trailblazing botanist and explorer whose lichenology work shaped natural…
Plant Know How Family Workshop at the Centre for Wildlife Gardening
This link will open on the London Wildlife Trust website.
A free fun one or two day family course discovering edible and medicinal plants for Southwark residents.
It’s not too late to stop the catastrophic loss of our wild plants
Today the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland publishes its new Plant Atlas – it’s a mammoth piece of work by thousands of amazing volunteers who’ve spent 20 years surveying the wild plants…
Peat-Free Plant Sale
This link will open on the Suffolk Wildlife Trust website.
Popular annual peat-free plant sale with locally grown plants, gardening books, raffle and refreshments.
A radical plan for wildlife?
The UK Government’s advisors have proposed a radical plan for wildlife. Here Stephen Trotter of The Wildlife Trusts calls for greater attention to spatial planning, and proper legislation to make…
Annual Plant Sale
This link will open on the Gwent Wildlife Trust website.
Gwent Wildlife Trust’s Chepstow Group Annual Plant Sale
Exploring local wildlife - in Urdu, Arabic and Slovakian
Several Wildlife Trusts have trialled new 'Wildlife Explorer' cards to help non-English speaking communities find out about the wildlife near them. Cheryl Burns, The Wildlife Trusts…
Walk: Clumber Park
This link will open on the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust website.
A full day field trip to National Trust's Clumber Park.
Why on earth do we still grow plants in peat?
The battle to protect and restore precious peatlands has been waged for 50 years. The arguments for protecting them are indisputable: peatlands are enormously important for wildlife and store vast…